Alternative Conservatism: Michael Oakeshott's Model
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- čas přidán 3. 08. 2019
- The term "conservatism" is so laden with unfortunate meaning and associations by now that it's hard to explain to people what it meant before it was confused with liberalism. But it’s really important to do so, because unlike the revolutionary culture-, family- and community-busting market-prioritizing conservatism everyone knows about now, the older version has positive contributions to make in a time of openness to different ways of thinking and living. Michael Oakeshott was a 20th century British thinker who wrote “On Being Conservative.” We'll read from the essay and mark some notable differences between the natural conservatism of Oakeshott and US conservatism today.
The essay:
faculty.rcc.edu/sellick/On%20B...
Front Porch Republic: www.frontporchrepublic.com/
Excellent post! All the oldsters I know, when we sit down over coffee and talk about the world, lament about what has been lost.
Russell Kirk also tried to stake out a form of conservatism that was not ideological but tied to a set of commonsense principles. He was also quite antagonistic to libertarians/freetraitors and didn't get completely into bed with the paleos. Someone else worth reading.
You know Mr. Kirk worked with Patrick Buchanan for his 1992 campaign in Michigan right?
I think right wing thinking represents the male psyche and left wing thinking the female psyche. When these two are in balance you have a good society. Just as when a man and woman are married and they keep each other’s darker nature in check you have a good marriage. When the male psyche dominates too much the society becomes self destructive, think 1914 Germany, the Japanese empire, so on. I think a domination of the female psyche leads to internal rot, or they collapse from within rather than from external forces. It’s my theory that the balancing of the psyches is not to bring out the best in us, but to protect us from our dark nature. Men become sex destructive with sex, women become self destructive with their vanity. You see how the internet heightens these dark sides. Today we simply provoke each other. Nobody wants to hear they are not needed or important. Modern western society has a simple goal of provoke your enemies, and your husband or wife.
This, with all do respect, looks like a horoscope rather than a serious statement. This is an essentialist statement deeply chauvinistic and patriarchal.
Hunh??
@@AP-yx1mm where is the patriarchal element in this? the original commenter is praising and ciritising both the male and female psyches, which he recognises as different and as both providing a positive contribution to a whole.
@@AP-yx1mm How is that “deeply chauvinistic and patriarchal”? Do you know what those words mean?
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Amazing work Laurie, thank you so much!
Very informative. I liked the contrast with what is taken to be modern conservatism. Is there is part three?
Very good, I like this series
I love Oakeshott! My favorite professor (aside from you, of course) was taught by him and Joseph Cropsey, among others, and it's such a blessing to learn from her.
I guess we're in the same extended family, then.
@@maurinacademy I think so, yes. Hopefully I'll become a fourth(?)-generation Straussian myself. Actually, may I send you an email to introduce myself better?
Good stuff thanks
Love the video, i'm not 100% english and i understood everything, I will definetly read the book and keep watching this channel, thank you.
Fascinating!
This is bourgeois ideology, pure and simple.
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Central air conditioning and heating means that wherever you are on the Earth you can live under the same moderate climate. If we add to this the promise of economical hydroponics then there will be no product or lifestyle that is particular to a specific location on Earth. The French are not the only people that make good wine. Germans are not the only good engineers. The Swiss are not the only great clock and watchmakers. Everything is made everywhere by everyone. Technology is the great homogenizer. Some say the enemy is capitalism, but the same homogenization would occur, just more slowly, under socialism. Is the only answer some form of Luddism?
Then how come africa does not have a massive industrial economy? The easy, lazy and wrong anwser would be to say Collonialism.
The truth is geography and resources allong with the people on a biological and cultural level make the economy run, most of the 3rd world needs western food just to survive, the properity and high birthrates are drawn from leaching off the west, the Germans are producing less and less cars with more and more problems and lower quality because they are slowly being ethnically replaced.
You can't have german cars without german people, you'll just get shitty cars claiming to be made by Germans.
If everyone could produce everything then life would be pretty cool, the problem is that's clearly not the case and while the west is moving backwards other nations are reclaiming their former place in the sun, how? Via nationalism and self interested action.
this is ok and iknow u got a PhD and all (respect) but you didnt even get the man birthday right.... .55 like the Bilbo photo btw
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You didn't even get grammar right, so we're even.